Community re‐assembly and divergence of woody plant traits in an island–mainland system after more than 50 years of regeneration

Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss

(2020) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

(2019) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   Science Advances

Forest fragmentation in China and its effect on biodiversity

(2019) Jiajia Liu et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Plant communities on nitrogen‐rich soil are less sensitive to soil moisture than plant communities on nitrogen‐poor soil

(2019) Tanvir Ahmed Shovon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environmental filtering underpins the island species—area relationship in a subtropical anthropogenic archipelago

(2019) Jinliang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cross‐scale drivers of plant trait distributions in a fragmented forest landscape

(2019) Yi Jin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

High beta diversity among small islands is due to environmental heterogeneity rather than ecological drift

(2018) Jinliang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Larger fragments have more late-successional species of woody plants than smaller fragments after 50 years of secondary succession

(2018) Jiajia Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Understory Community Assembly Following Wildfire in Boreal Forests: Shift From Stochasticity to Competitive Exclusion and Environmental Filtering

(2018) Bo Liu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

(2017) Jairo Patiño et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Soil-mediated filtering organizes tree assemblages in regenerating tropical forests

(2017) Bruno Ximenes Pinho et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Logging increases the functional and phylogenetic dispersion of understorey plant communities in tropical lowland rain forest

(2017) Timm F. Döbert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Isolation-driven functional assembly of plant communities on islands

(2016) Luka Negoita et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Fragmentation affects plant community composition over time

(2016) C. D. Collins et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Habitat Fragmentation Drives Plant Community Assembly Processes across Life Stages

(2016) Guang Hu et al.   PLoS One

Disentangling the drivers of taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversities in disturbed and undisturbed subtropical forests

(2016) Jinliang Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Disturbance alters beta-diversity but not the relative importance of community assembly mechanisms

(2015) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An updated megaphylogeny of plants, a tool for generating plant phylogenies and an analysis of phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

(2015) Maxwell C. Wilson et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

An updated megaphylogeny of plants, a tool for generating plant phylogenies and an analysis of phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Community assembly and functional diversity along succession post-management

(2014) Radika Bhaskar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Prevalence of phylogenetic clustering at multiple scales in an African rain forest tree community

(2014) Ingrid Parmentier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Beta diversity as the variance of community data: dissimilarity coefficients and partitioning

(2013) Pierre Legendre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Anthropogenic disturbance shapes phylogenetic and functional tree community structure in a subtropical forest

(2013) Gang Feng et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

(2012) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community (re)organization in an experimentally fragmented forest landscape: insights from occupancy-scale patterns of common plant species

(2012) John W. Morgan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Comparison of seed rain and seed limitation between community understory and gaps in a subtropical evergreen forest

(2011) Yanjun Du et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Effects of Pioneer Tree Species Hyperabundance on Forest Fragments in Northeastern Brazil

(2010) MARCELO TABARELLI et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Nestedness for different reasons: the distributions of birds, lizards and small mammals on islands of an inundated lake

(2010) Yanping Wang et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China

(2009) Pierre Legendre et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Resilience of tropical rain forests: tree community reassembly in secondary forests

(2009) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Wood Density as a Conservation Tool: Quantification of Disturbance and Identification of Conservation-Priority Areas in Tropical Forests

(2008) J. W. FERRY SLIK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES

(2008) F. Guillaume Blanchet et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE